(Prom 49) March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, in D...Elgar

Suite: Beni Mora...Holst

Sea Songs...arr. Henry Wood

Rule, Britannia...Arne

Jerusalem...Parry

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard) Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

Last Night of the Proms

Season 15

First Night of the Proms

(Prom 1) Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

First Night

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Soloists, Clifford Curzon (piano), Amy Shuard (soprano)

Prelude: The Mastersingers...Wagner

Aria: In questa reggia (Turandot)...Puccini

Piano Concerto No.4, in G...Beethoven

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

(Amy Shuard appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival.  The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895.  Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.

Last Night of the Proms

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